I recommend Peshkin’s article to graduate students and instructors searching for well written discussions on researcher subjectivity and interpreting data. The study presented in the paper focuses on the academic achievements of Native American youth. He writes to a wider audience of researchers and offers counterpoints where alternative interpretative decisions could have been made. The article provokes rich discussion whenever I assign the article in doctoral level qualitative research courses.

Peshkin, A. (2000). The nature of interpretation in qualitative research. Educational Researcher, 29(9), 5-9.

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